I can't understand why people even gamble in Atlantic City. The casinos are too expensive. The times I visited, the casinos had $25 minimums to play a hand. Very few tables would open with a $15 minimum, and they would soon convert to $25. That's too expensive. I'm on the west coast, and can play in Nevada at $5 minimums a hand, and $3 at some cheaper casinos. Plus our Indian casinos in California often have $5 minimum tables. It's no wonder the casinos in Atlantic City shut down, hard to attract customers. The Boardwalk was interesting, but not enough to make me want to return as a tourist.
AS I understand it (I haven’t been there for years), the tables start cheaper and go up as the night goes on (but if you started lower you can continue at that rate). More and more people don’t gamble in AC, for two reasons: 1) Far less people have money to gamble, and 2) there are better alternatives now that didn’t exist when the casinos opened. For me, living about a dozen miles west of Manhattan in northeastern NJ, the Connecticut casinos are roughly the same distance but in a much nicer area; now Pennsylvania has casinos a little more than an hour west of me, and they are also in better areas. As I understand it from friends who still go, parts of the boardwalk have become very unsafe; I’m sure crime has risen as casino revenues for the city/county/state have dropped.